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Oct 3, 5:47 AM:
The Baptist minister from Fort Worth is founder of Pastors for Texas Children, and on Tuesday launched a four-day, five-stop statewide speaking tour in Chattanooga. Since its founding in 2013, his nonprofit group has >

Sep 24, 4:35 AM:
Seven Shelby County charter schools, including three run by Memphis' former mayor and schools superintendent Willie Herenton, will be forced to close at the end of this school year after finding themselves on the state's >

Sep 21, 5:35 AM:
Earlier this week, Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced the inaugural class of the Tennessee Rural Principals Network, which is a part of Gov. Bill Haslam's Transforming School Leadership Initiative. >

Sep 17, 4:38 AM:
But the area was already beginning to gentrify, and as Lockeland's test scores rose and word spread of this hidden East Nashville gem, people — mainly white people — flocked to its priority zone, boosting their chances of >

Sep 14, 5:26 AM:
For all students in Shelby County to have access to the high-quality public education they deserve, our school district must seek creative ways to address the complex issues that affect our diverse community and its >

Sep 11, 5:23 AM:
There are many changes taking place in education. As an outward sign of this change, schools are striving to make their environments more like the “real world,” which is to say like adult workplaces. >

Sep 11, 4:54 AM:
Results from a statewide poll on education show that half of Tennesseans have a favorable opinion of charter schools, and the majority would prefer a governor who supports school choice for parents.

Sep 4, 5:07 AM:
The Nashville school board hasn’t allowed a single charter school to open in the last four years, and its approval process has effectively stopped almost everyone from applying, despite booming growth in the city. >

Aug 23, 6:10 AM:
Now in its seventh year, the district is the umbrella organization for charter networks that operate 32 schools in Tennessee, 30 of which are in Memphis. The ASD serves about 12,000 of the state's most vulnerable children, >

Aug 21, 6:39 AM:
The iZone’s two dozen schools have been heralded for how much students have grown since 2012, especially when compared to the state-run Achievement School District, which heavily relies on private charter organizations to >

Aug 14, 5:34 AM:
Despite Hamilton County Schools leaders' and board members' assertions that the institutes will help increase diversity by allowing students not zoned for those schools to attend an institute, only about 70 students — some >

Aug 3, 6:40 AM:
Karl Dean easily defeated Craig Fitzhugh in Thursday's Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a November general election where he’ll try to become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in the >

Jul 24, 5:17 AM:
TennesseeCAN spent more than $26,000 on behalf of candidate Michelle Robinson McKissack for mailed advertisements, phone calls, and texts in late June, according to the group’s disclosure forms.

Jul 19, 6:07 AM:
The Metro Development and Housing Agency granted influential nonprofit Martha O’Bryan Center an 11-month extension to raise $5 million to help pay for a new charter school building in East Nashville.